Bonneville, Bikes and weirdness

[jfholm]

Well guys, here is the reason my wife hates racing. I drove this car for it's last run in 1979. My wife to be wanted to know what I was so excited about and asked that I take her to the races with me. When we got there the owner of this car, of which I had built the engine, asked me to make a run in it. You can see the results. I was very lucky to walk away without a scratch, just some dirty laundry. No roll bar or anything. Notice the drivers seat back is broken back and out of sight and that is what saved my neck from being broken. The seat back broke letting me fall backwards when the car landed on it's top after three barrel rolls in the air. SEAT BELTS WORK! I may have posted these on the old forum, but it seems kind of slow here so this gives us something to look at.

John

[Brucepts]

How'd you claim that on insurance??

Glad you were alright . . . or should I say not hurt, juror is still out on whether or not you are "alright"

[jfholm]

Yes and please do not ask anybody that is close to me if I am really "alright" or not. It was amazing I was not hurt. Lost it just before the lights and I was on the drivers side of the car when the guy I was racing hit me. That caused the car to go into the air and it did 3 barrel rolls all the way over the lights. That was the one redeeming thing, I did not take out the finish line lights It took the Doctor a week to pull all the seat cover out of my butt as I was sucked down so hard on the seat.

John

[1960FL]

John, Did the good old AM Radio still work?

Rick

[jfholm]

John, Did the good old AM Radio still work?

Rick

Rick,
That is what caused the crash, I was looking down tuning the station at 105 mph

John

[1960FL]

OK, Here goes, some of you guy's in Europe will know this road, can't wait to ride it some day. So here is a new sport out you do not need a flow bench just a small gut and big somthing else!

Enjoy

PS this falls under the wierdness part of the thread.

http://www.gamaniak.com/video-3625-desc ... ollin.html

Rick

[jfholm]

Can you imagine what the guys on the 2 bikes he passed thought? "HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS THAT!"

John